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31-Oct-06, 10:45 PM
|  | Obsessed Subscriber | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: BrisVegas! Age/Gender: 19  | | | My Python Enclosure/What Do You Think?
This is my python enclosure. Its a 1mx0.5mx0.5m glass tank sitting on a dark wooden stand with draws. The right hand side has a wooden lid with build in dichoric fittings. The rest of the lid (seperat part) is a wooden surround with wire mesh as the roof. Theres red desert sand over the bottom, and a heat cord underneath it at the right hand side, attatched to a thermostat to heat the sand. That area is covered in fake autumn leaves for cover. Theres a driftwood log in the centre that extends to the whole tank, and a hanging leafy vine on the lefthand side, that my 2 little spotted's love curling up in, and a desert water bowl at the front middle. What do you think? Any comments or suggestions appreciated. I have attatched pics of the spotteds (Cairo-male, Reno female). Hes acting getting hissy and shes drinking. wanna more lemme know!
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Celeste
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31-Oct-06, 10:53 PM
|  | Custom Enclosures Sponsor | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: Newcastle | | | | Get rid of the glass tank the rest looks great.
All glass won't hold the heat as well as wood. jmo |
31-Oct-06, 10:55 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-06 Location: eltham,melbourne,australia Age: 15 | | | | true but sitll nice!!!
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31-Oct-06, 10:56 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: May-06 Location: Somewhere in between the beach and the bush Age/Gender: 27  | | | | It doesn't hold the heat as well but it works fine. In brissie you don't have to worry about freezing temps. I'm in canberra with all glass and I have no probs
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31-Oct-06, 10:59 PM
| | Obsessed Subscriber | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: BrisVegas! Age/Gender: 19 | | | | They seem to like it. Its great for viewing. The sand temp is what it should be!
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31-Oct-06, 11:21 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: brisbane Age: 25 | | | | wow! looks really good! that's such a cute pic of her drinking! |
01-Nov-06, 11:29 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: townsville Age/Gender: 24 | | | | glass is fine in brissy.
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01-Nov-06, 01:33 PM
|  | Sapere aude Sponsor | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: ACT | | | | Yeah glass will be fine,. you are providing a basking point, if it gets cold it will sit under the light,
How does the sand go, any issues at all?
Wouldnt mind seeing some more pictures too, the tank one is a little blurry
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01-Nov-06, 07:20 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-05 Location: Newcastle, NSW Age: 26 | | | | how do you find the lights. are oyu using them for heat or just looks (guessing heat being at the one end). i am looking at building an enclosure using dicroic lights as well
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01-Nov-06, 10:27 PM
| | Obsessed Subscriber | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: BrisVegas! Age/Gender: 19 | | | | Im using them for light, looks and heat lol. They do put off a fair bit of heat, i wouldnt put them both (2 of them) on at the same time in summer, way too hot. Ive got a heat cord underneath the sand at the lit up end, so it heats up the sand. They seem to like it.
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01-Nov-06, 10:30 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: brisbane Age: 25 | | | | do u feed them in the enclosure? i really like the sand but didn't know if it would cause dramas when it came to feeding. (i'm on msn if u want to chat lol) |
01-Nov-06, 10:31 PM
|  | Seller | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Brassall QLD Age/Gender: 30 | | | I got something similar theres a pic of it in my forum Modifications of snake tank but im in darwin and i dont really use heat mats or anything like that.....Not yet anyways 
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01-Nov-06, 10:33 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: yinnar sth victoria Age/Gender: 32 | | | | whats a dicroic light
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02-Nov-06, 10:20 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: May-05 Location: Frankston Victoria Age/Gender: 44 | | | | I use a fully glass converted fish tank in Melbourne with no problems. I have lights for lighting and extra heat but I do run heat mats under the tank to create a warm spot. I use gravel (left over from the fish tank) in the bottom and don't have any problems. The heat mats dry out the poo pretty quickly and I just pick it out. |
02-Nov-06, 11:46 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Sydney | | | | I think it looks good.. And Im planning to use glass..
and what a pretty snake!!
but has someone mentioned sand as a substrate..getting stuck in their clocoea (whatever its called) and all that?
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